ombudsman

Etymology
Borrowed from (equivalent to  + ), from.

Noun

 * 1) An appointed official whose duty is to investigate complaints, generally on behalf of individuals such as consumers or taxpayers, against institutions such as companies and government departments.
 * 2) A designated internal mediator in an organization whose duty is to assist members with conflict resolution and other problems and to serve as an independent consultant to recommend changes to policies or procedures to improve organization effectiveness, efficiency, and humaneness.

Usage notes

 * Derived from Swedish, where the suffix is not always gender specific. Nevertheless, the words, , , and  have been coined to remedy the perceived gender-specificity of ombudsman in English.

Translations

 * Arabic: أَمِين اَلْمَظَالِم
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, defensor del poble
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 申訴專員, 調查專員
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: umboðsmaður
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: ragador, meeiro, avindeiro, triquiñón, valedor
 * Georgian: ომბუდსმენი, სახალხო დამცველი
 * German:
 * Hindi:, लोकायुक्त
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese:, 苦情調査官
 * Kazakh: омбудсмен
 * Korean: 옴부즈만
 * Kyrgyz: омбудсмен
 * Macedonian: народен правобранител, омбудсман
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: ombodsmann
 * Persian: دادآور
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: уполномо́ченный по права́м челове́ка,, омбудсма́н
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: омбу̀дсман
 * Latin:, pȗčkī pravobrànitelj
 * Spanish:, , defensor del pueblo
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: додовар
 * Thai: ผู้ตรวจการแผ่นดิน
 * Turkish:, kamu denetçisi
 * Ukrainian: омбудсме́н, омбудсма́н
 * Urdu: محتسب
 * Welsh: ombwdsmon

Etymology
From, borrowed from , from.

Noun

 * 1) an

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) an appointed official within an organization whose duty is to investigate complaints against that organization by its customers, taxpayers, and sometimes employees, and often to act as a consultant to improve services and processes

Usage notes

 * In Quebec, the office in government services is called . A similar office in France is that of the, though its precise functions differ.

Etymology
, from (equivalent to  + ), from.

Noun

 * 1) ombudsman
 * 2) an appointed official whose duty is to investigate complaints, generally on behalf of individuals such as consumers or taxpayers, against institutions such as companies and government departments.
 * 3) a designated internal mediator in an organization whose duty is to assist members with conflict resolution and other problems and to serve as an independent consultant to recommend changes to policies or procedures to improve organization effectiveness, efficiency, and humaneness.

Etymology
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Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  official who investigates complaints

Etymology
, from, from.

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
From or. The origin of the word is found in and the word “umbuds man”, meaning representative. The first preserved use in Swedish is from 1552.

Etymology
From, from , from.